07/08/2018

GP Forward View: assessment of progress: year 2

Royal College of General Practitioners -

This second annual assessment of the GP Forward View highlights areas where the five-year plan is falling short, particularly in the efforts to boost the GP workforce by 5,000 by 2020. Since it was launched in April 2016, the GP workforce has actually fallen by over 1,000 full-time equivalent GPs, according to official figures, meaning that more than 6,000 are now needed to meet the government's target. While the promised funding of £2.4bn extra a year by 2020 is on track to be delivered, this report states that GPs are just not feeling the impact of this extra investment on the frontline of patient care.